Jack's Rake's bodhran player thought, for many of his early years, that the American word for traffic lights was "gestand".

This was because "she stole her daddy's car and she drove it to the amber gestand now"

He's from Fleetwood; fast food didn't reach there until this century.

My own little puzzlement, at a similar age, was why, exactly, is there a war-zone on seventh avenue?

"just a come on from the war-zone, Seventh Avenue.